Houstonians Weigh In On Supreme Court Case 'Fisher v. UT'

Within a week, the U.S. Supreme Court could rule on a high profile case about race and college admissions. It's Fisher versus the University of Texas at Austin. A white student believed she was denied admissions in 2008 because non-white students got extra consideration.

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College professor Lydia Tiede has her students debate things like affirmative action in her political science class. For her, diversity isn’t an abstract concept. She sees it firsthand among her students at the University of Houston.

“I have older students, students that work, students with families, students that have just gotten out of the military or served – huge diversity”

She also sees the benefits of that diversity. It makes the classroom debate more interesting.

I get individuals from completely different backgrounds saying things and then other students, you can tell they’re listening, and often time changing their view or saying something else. And it’s the fact that you’ve got the different backgrounds. They’re not all saying the same thing.”